Saya Gray (born 1995) is a Canadian musician. She has four albums or EPs, starting with her debut in 2022.
Early life
Gray was born in 1995
and raised in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
growing up in the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto.
Her mother is the founder of the Discovery Through the Arts music school in Toronto.
She is of Japanese-Canadian descent.
Her mother's family moved from Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan to Canada when her mother was ten years old.
Her father is a Scottish-Canadian
jazz trumpet player who studied at the Berklee College of Music.
Her brother, Lucian Gray, who plays the guitar, appears on her album
19 Masters.
She began playing the piano at a young age,
eventually deciding around the age of ten to play bass.
Musical career
Gray began playing music in a house band for a Jamaican Pentecostal church.
At the age of eighteen, Gray was a music teacher and a member of the Quincy Bullen Band.
After
dropping out of high school in order to take night classes instead, she moved to London in the United Kingdom at the age of nineteen.
She worked as a touring bassist for over ten years prior to releasing music.
She previously played as a bassist in Canadian singer and songwriter
Daniel Caesar's touring band.
She has also been a musical director for American singer
Willow Smith and a bassist for English singer and songwriter
Liam Payne.
In 2019, Gray began releasing original music.
Her second album, Saya, was released on 21 February 2025.
Personal life
Gray has lived in
Toronto and the countries of Japan and the United Kingdom.
She was living in
Tokyo as of March 2024.
Discography
Albums
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19 Masters (2022)
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Saya (2025)
EPs
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QWERTY (2023)
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QWERTY II (2024)
